History           

Who, When, Why

Sites marked with this mortarboard symbol ì are on Ms. Moy's AP History websites list.

KHS subscribes to the Gale Group databases History Resource Center: U.S. and History Resource Center: World.  Brochures with more particulars about these comprehensive student-friendly resources are available in the KHS Library. You must pick up a brochure to get the online access code for these two resources.

Links to free online history resources are below.

• Africans in America ì
  • Teaching resources to accompany the four-part PBS series on America's journey through slavery. For each era, there is a historical Narrative, a Resource Bank of images, documents, stories, biographies, and commentaries, and a Teacher's Guide for using the content of the Web site and television series in U.S. history courses.
• America in the Sixties: Culture and Counter-Culture ì
  • Articles produced by the Yale-New Haven Teachers' Institute.
• American Cultural History 1900's
  • Kingwood College Library
• American Memory ì
  • Library of Congress' American Memory website, with memoirs, journals, photographs, biographical information, audio and video recordings, and more.
• AnthroNet
  • The Anthro.Net database contains thousands of reviewed anthropology web sites and bibliographic references.
• Archives of American Art ì
  • Nearly 6,000 archival collections of papers and records of artists, art organizations, galleries, art collectors, dealers, curators, critics, administrators, and others, ranging in date from Colonial Times to the present, and approximately 2,000 interviews conducted for AAA's Oral History Program, begun in 1958 to document the visual arts in the United States.
• Archiving Early America  ì
  • A wealth of resources -- a unique array of primary source material from 18th Century America, with scenes and portraits from original newspapers, maps and writings.
• The Avalon Project  ì
  • Documents in Law, History, and Diplomacy, a project of Yale University.  The Avalon Project is a cooperating partner of the International Relations and Security Network ISN.  Linked to Project Diana, an online human rights archive.
• Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress
  • From 1774 to the present
• Biographies
  • Links to various biography websites
• Center for History and New Media  ì
  • Digital history projects, tools, and resources
• Cold War Politics
  • Prepared by Steve Schoenherr,  Professor of History, University of San Diego
• Decades.com
  • Decades.com is a private venture, dedicated to making history easily accessible.
• Dwight D. Eisenhower Library Reference Desk
  • Biographies, Presidential years, WWII, and more
• EconEdLink ì
  • An Economics glossary and teaching resources.
• Eras of Elegance
  • Overviews of important historical eras, with information on daily life, diet, fashion, key personalities, artistic movements, inventions and discoveries, from ancient times to the early twentieth century.
• EyeWitness to History
  • Your ringside seat to history - from the Ancient World to the present. History through the eyes of those who lived it.
• Famous Trials
  • An educational  providing a clear, concise, and reasonably balanced understanding of famous trials throughout history, maintained at the University of Missouri-Kansas City Law School by
    Doug Linder, Professor of Law. at the University of Missouri-Kansas City Law School.
    Doug Linder, Professor of Law
• Founding Fathers
  • This highly readable e-text includes a Revolutionary War timeline, the causes of the Revolution, the story of the Declaration of Independence, and much more.
• Genealogy
  • Links to genealogy resources on the web.
• George Washington Papers
  • The Papers of George Washington, a grant-funded project, was established in 1969 at the University of Virginia, under the joint auspices of the University and the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union, to publish a complete edition of Washington's correspondence.
• Glossary of Art Movements  ì
  • Brief descriptions of major movements in the visual arts throughout history.
• History Cooperative  ì
  • The History Cooperative is a pioneering nonprofit humanities resource offering top-level online history scholarship, sponsored by the University of Illinois Press, the American Historical Association, the Organization of American Historians, and the National Academies Press.
• History of American Slavery 1619-1865  ì
  • A comprehensive compilation to links concerning the entire history of slavery in American, with many primary sources and a citation guide.
• History Matters  ì
  • A gateway to web resources and other useful materials for teaching U.S. history.
• HyperHistory Online
  • Over  2,000 files covering 3,000 years of world history in science, culture, religion, and politics.
• HyperWar: Hypertext History of WWII
  • A collection of material related to the (primarily military) history of the Second World War, completely cross-referenced via hypertext links.
• ImageFinder  ì
  • Digital image and sound databases maintained by the library of the University of California at Berkeley.
• Institute for Economic Studies  ì
  • Mackinac Center for Public Policy in Michigan
• Institute of Historical Research  ì
  • Historical research resources including online articles, free event advertising, MA/PhD study, training courses, an open-access library and more
• Johns Hopkins University Press  ì
  • Digital history projects, tools, and resources
• Library of Congress  ì
  • Historic maps, photos, documents, audio and video
• Literature and Culture of the American 1950s
  • A University of Pennsylvania website featuring reading lists, opinion articles, articles on historical events, significant personalities, cultural trends, the Cold War, the Stalin era, etc., including many articles published in the 1950's.
• Maine Historical Society
  • Maine Historical Society is dedicated to the preservation, understanding, and enjoyment of Maine history.

• Making of America  ì

  • A digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.

• Modern Internet History Sourcebook ì 

  •  A history primary sourcebook intended to serve the needs of teachers and students in college survey courses in modern European history and American history, as well as in  modern Western Civilization and World Cultures.

• Museum of Anthropology
  • At the University of British Columbia.
• The National Archives  ì
  • The Digital Classroom, the National Archives' gateway for resources, primary sources, activities and training for educators and students.
• The National History Project  ì
  • Guides to help students think historically while examining primary sources from Illinois State University Department of History.
• Our Documents
  • One hundred pivotal documents that shaped American history, with teachers' resources.
• PBS Technology in 1900
  • See what Technology looked like in 1900.
• Radio Days
  • The Old Time Radio Link Society is dedicated to the Golden Age of Radio Media, and has hundreds of period radio broadcasts and excerpts, many in mp3 format.
• The Renaissance
  • Links to over 100 recommended Renaissance and Elizabethan resources on the web.
• Repositories of Primary Sources  ì
  • A listing of over 5000 websites describing worldwide holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs, and other primary sources for the research scholar.
• This Day in History
  • Presented by the History Channel
• U.S. Government
  • Links to official and unofficial U. S. Government sites.
• USHistory.org
  • A virtual marching tour of the American Revolutionary War presented by The Independence Hall Association.
• Who's Who
  • Who's Who Online® is a searchable site containing professional and biographical data about accomplished individuals throughout the world.
• World War I Research Links
  • A collection of links designed to research the causes, the battles and the weapons
• World War II Research links
  • Timeline, Biographies, National WWII Memorial and U.S. Troops in Action 1942-1945.